Global Update Early Summer 04: TCC Rocks Canada, North Shore Conference

For Immediate Release
08-05-04
Contact: Dan Vardamis

303-545-9011

IMBA is well represented in Canada in 2004. IMBA plans to open its first Canadian office (in Collingwood, Ontario) by late summer 2004.

The Subaru/IMBA Trail Care Crew will be working in Toronto, Ontario, May 14-16, Kelowna, British Columbia, July 15-18, and East Gwillimbury, Ontario, August 26-29. In addition, Ottawa, Ontario, was recently named an IMBA Urban Hot Spot – the first Canadian city to receive this designation. IMBA will work to improve access in the Canadian capital throughout 2004, highlighted by a focused staff visit September 28-October 3. For more info on Crew visits to Canada and the Ottawa Hot Spot campaign email .

In other Canadian news, IMBA has become an associate sponsor of the North Shore World Mountain Bike Conference and Festival, August 18-20 in Vancouver, Columbia. Sessions will explore environmental, social and economic issues surrounding mountain biking. Visit nsmbfc.com for details.

We want to extend an invitation to mountain bikers living outside the United States to attend IMBA's Summit in Maryland, June 4-8. Classroom sessions will present information that is applicable and valuable for international attendees. At our Moab summit in 2002 we had more than 25 attendees from countries outside the U.S, and we want to increase that number this year.